“That's how we stay young these days: murder and suicide.”

“A murderer is only an extroverted suicide.”

“How many murders, suicides, robberies, criminal assaults, holdups, burglaries and deeds of maniacal insanity it causes each year, especially among the young, can only be conjectured…No one knows, when he places a marijuana cigarette to his lips, whether he will become a joyous reveller in a musical heaven, a mad insensate, a calm philosopher, or a murderer…”

“Suicides are timid murderers. Masochism instead of Sadism.”

“Our enemies send other people's children on missions of suicide and murder. They embrace tyranny and death as a cause and a creed. We stand for a different choice, made long ago, on the day of our founding. We affirm it again today. We choose freedom and the dignity of every life.”

“I entered the [Iran-Iraq] war on a fifteen-day mission, and ended up staying until the end. … We were all young and wanted to serve the revolution.”

“Suicide is a form of murder—premeditated murder. It isn’t something you do the first time you think of doing it. It takes getting used to. And you need the means, the opportunity, the motive. A successful suicide demands good organization and a cool head, both of which are usually incompatible with the suicidal state of mind.”

“But do we know how to make love stay?'
I can't even think about it. The best I can do is play it day by day.”

“Committing suicide so as not to be murdered is the worst reason I've ever heard of to die.”

“A viler evil than to murder a man, is to sell him suicide as an act of virtue.”